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IPGRI in the Americas   

   
Assisting national programmes in the Americas  

Building national capacity through training

Developing training materials

Providing group and individual training

Encouraging the creation of graduate programmes at regional universities

Providing information on training opportunities

Examples of IPGRI's support to national programmes in the Americas
   

Increasing international collaboration through networking

Network coordinators
  

Improving conservation strategies and technologies

Conserving and using genetic resources of tropical American fruits

Passiflora

Pineapple

References on pineapple

Papaya

Cherimoya

Information resources on fruit crops from the Americas

Bibliography on Neotropical fruits

Inventory of fruits from the Americas

Managing genetic resources with GIS

Mapping diversity and species distribution

Planning collecting missions

From exploration to use of germplasm with GIS

Ongoing projects on GIS applied to plant genetic resources management

What is GIS?

Software

References

Links

Contacts

Molecular genetics

Testing methods and developing guidelines for complementary conservation

Improving germplasm health

Studying the use of genetic resources conserved ex situ

Understanding and using genetic resources conserved in situ
  

Increasing the use of plant genetic resources
  

Managing and communicating information

Improving documentation and facilitating access to germplasm-related information

Providing technical information and increasing public awareness

IPGRI Americas library catalogue database

Bibliographies on the genetic resources of the Americas

Newsletter for the Americas / Boletín de las Américas

Bibliographic information searches

   Agricultural libraries in the Americas

Requests for publications

Publications about the genetic resources of the Americas
   

Addressing socioeconomic and policy issues
   

Conserving and using specific crops
       

Conserving and using forest genetic resources